Dr. Travis J. Bristol, a former high school English teacher in New York city public schools and teacher educator with the Boston Teacher Residency, is an Assistant Professor at Boston University. His research interests focus on the practices that support teacher and student learning and the policies that enable and constrain teacher workplace experiences and retention. Dr. Bristol’s theoretical framework draws on the intersection of race and gender in organizations

SPECIAL EVENTS:

1. Out of Many, One: The Challenge, Promise, and Hope for Increasing the Racial/Ethnic Diversity in America’s Teaching Force

Open to the Public – Keynote Address outlining the need for Teachers of Color to Enrich our Communities. Overview of the research and what we now know is best for ALL students in America, followed by Q/A session. University faculty and students are encouraged to attend.

This catered event includes a silent auction to support the organization’s student scholarship fund, and it’s a great opportunity to fellowship with our membership and students.

All donations for the silent auction are being collected by Pamela Elam. Please email Pam at elamp@mail.montclair with your donation items as soon as possible. If you are looking for ideas for items to donate, please look here: http://www.letsdoanauction.com/ideasforitems.pdf.

In celebration of Black History Month and to help folks prepare for the Black HERstory Ball, the LGBTQ Center will be hosting a vogue therapy workshop instructed by ballroom expert Tyra Gardner. The art of vogue was born in the Harlem Ballroom scene in the 1960’s in the African American and Latinx community. Come learn some vogue moves to add to your dance repertoire to impress your friends at our Black HERstory Ball! View HawkSync Event

Join the LGBTQ Center and the Office of Health Promotion for a FREE conference offering fundamental and advanced-level workshops and educational sessions to members of our community on topics related to intersectionality and multiculturalism and the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer and questioning community. Some workshop topics include men and masculinity, allyship, sexuality and ability, gender, social justice, anti-racism, and more. Registration required. More information

Join the LGBTQ Center for an evening of ballroom culture in honor of Black History Month. Ballroom was birthed in the LGBT Black & Latinx communities in Harlem during the 1960’s and allows all to express their gender and sexuality while competing for trophies & prizes in different categories such as runway, voguing, drag king, & drag queen. You won’t want to miss it! View HawkSync Event​

Monday, February 22Leveling the Playing Field for Black Entrepreneurs
12:15-2:15 p.m., School of Business Multipurpose room

This program will explore unique issues that Black entrepreneurs face in building successful business. Both research and personal experience in business will illuminate strategies for negotiating challenges and leveling the playing field.
Keynote – Professor Jerome Williams
Panel of Entrepreneurs – Tashieka Brewer, Greg Collins, Marjorie Perry, Makeba Green (student entrepreneur)

This event will be a wrap up of the melanin Monday in honor of black history. This event will be presentation on what melanin is and the significance of it. Sponsored by The Brotherhood/La Hermandad. View HawkSync Event.

An event to commemorate and acknowledge the achievements and events that took place in the month of February as it affects the African American community and campus community at large. Sponsored by The Organization of Student for African Unity. View HawkSync Event.

The 2016 Black History Celebration exhibit, We Found Our Way: Newark Portraits from the Great Migration, centers on the remarkable narratives of the Krueger‐Scott African‐American Oral History Collection. This collection, assembled in the late 1990s under the direction of Catherine J. Lenix‐Hooker, captured the stories of Newark’s African‐American citizens who migrated to the city between 1910‐1970. The result is over 100 interviews with brave men and women who left the segregated, Jim Crow South to make better lives for themselves and their families. Ms. Lenix‐Hooker emphasizes the importance of these interviews as not only “eyewitnesses to the city in the 21st century,” but also as a “solid body of evidence” documenting “the major contributions African‐Americans have made to the city [in] over eight decades of Newark’s rich history.”

Section 1. Membership shall be open to all employees at Montclair State of African descent.

Section 2. Membership status of “good standing” in The Caucus will always be determined by the financial roster prepared by the treasurer.

Section 3. Annual dues shall be assessed in an amount determined by the membership at the May meeting of each year. Dues shall become due at the September meeting and payable by the next February meeting. These funds shall comprise the treasury and be used to support the financial needs as defined by the membership.